Colin Graham

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Paula Murrihy will play Judith in the upcoming production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle for the Dublin Theatre Festival
Paula Murrihy: ‘You’ve got to find and follow your road ’

Mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy’s journey from Kerry to the stages of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Salzburg Festival, not to mention her reg(...)

A recent Europe-wide survey conducted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work shows that 22 per cent of Irish workers experience stress at work either “always” or “most of the time”.
How Irish businesses combat workplace stress

Irish workers have been revealed to be among the most stressed in the EU. A recent Europe-wide survey conducted by the European Agency for Safety an(...)

Jibes about arts degrees and low-paying jobs provide plenty of material for meme makers online. Many colleges are now reforming their courses to place a greater focus on boosting graduates’ employability
Arts degrees: Can universities save them?

They’ve always been an easy target. And nowadays, jibes about arts degrees and low-paying jobs provide plenty of material for meme-makers online. “Oh(...)

The late British art critic and prize-winning author John Berger, who died aged 90, on January 3rd, 2017. Photograph: Jacob Berger/AFP/Getty Images
Has the age of instant access finally put an end to the critic?

Upon his death earlier this week, John Berger was described by British artist David Shrigley as “the best ever writer on art”. It was not the first o(...)

One of Eamonn Doyle’s photographs at the Arles exhibition.
When it comes to photography, Ireland in no danger of overexposure

Last summer in Arles, France, visitors were paying €12 to see the work of a Dublin-born artist at the oldest photography festival in the world. Lands(...)

Poet Caitríona O’Reilly has won this year’s ’Irish Times’ Poetry Now award.
Caitríona O’Reilly wins ‘Irish Times’ Poetry Now award

The winner of this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award is Caitríona O’Reilly for Geis, published by Bloodaxe Books. The award will be presented to t(...)

From left, Caitríona O’Reilly, Medbh McGuckian, John F Deane, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
And then there were five: Poetry Now shortlist announced

The shortlist for this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now Award has been announced. The competition recognises the best collection by an Irish poet in the(...)

A riot on the Falls Road, Belfast in 1995. Photograph: Sean McKernan / courtesy of Belfast Exposed Archive
NI photography book wins Irish-American prize
  • Books
  • June 12, 2014, 14:30

Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography by Colin Graham has been awarded the 2014 Michael J Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture by the Am(...)